36 ACCOUNTS, ETC>, OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Department of Oriental Printed Books and 

 Manuscripts. 



Cataloguing and Arrangement. — The number of the 

 sheets of the various Oriental Catalogues sent to press in 

 1907 are :— Arabic Books, 2 sheets ; Hebrew MSS., 9 sheets ; 

 Hindustani Accessions, 18 sheets ; Marathi Accessions, 4 

 sheets ; Sanskrit Accessions, 13^ sheets. 



The numbers of Titles written for the various Cata- 

 logues are : — Annamite, 2 ; Arabic, 38 ; Assamese, 26 

 Assyrian, 1 ; Baluchi, 2 ; Bengali, 124 ; Burmese, 302 

 Canarese, 38; Chinese, 579 ; Coptic, 15 ; Ethiopic,9 ; GarO, 2 

 Gujarati, 121; Hebrew, 52; Hindi, 289; Hindustani, 538 

 Japanese, 75 ; Kachari, 6 : Kashmiri, 6 ; Kol, 6 ; Kurukh, 1 

 Lushai, 15 ; Malayalam, 16 ; Mandaitic, 4 ; Marathi, 177 

 Mikir, 12 ; Mundari, 12 ; Naga, 36 ; Oraon, 6 ; Oriya, 23 

 Pali, 76; Pa^ijabi, 100; Pahlavi, 1 ; Persian, 1,321; Prakrit, 3 

 Pushtu, 37; Sanskrit, 434 ; Santali,6; Sindhi, 39; Syriac,26 

 Tamil, 664 ; Tamil in Arabic character, 5 ; Telugu, 175 

 Turkish, 57; Zend, 19. 



Thirty-nine Arabic MSS. and 55 Hebrew MSS. have been 

 fully catalogued, and shorter descriptions have been prepared 

 of 20 Chinese MSS. 



Short descriptions of seventy MSS. acquired have been 

 entered in the Descriptive List, the Register, and the 

 Classed Inventory. 



Twenty-nine MSS. (ff. 2,572) have been folio'd. 



Binding. — The numbers of Printed Books and MSS. sent 

 to the Binders are : — Arabic, Syriac, and Armenian Books, 

 128; Chinese and Japanese Books, 70; Hebrew Books, 65; 

 Persian and Turkish Books, 109 ; Sanskrit and other Indian 

 Books, 226 ; MSS., 113 ; Pamphlets, 58. 



Students. — The number of Students working in the 

 Students' Room attached to the Department during the year 

 is 3,286. The number of Oriental Printed Books consulted 

 in the Department is 7,206, and of those used in the Reading 

 Room 405. The number of Oriental MSS. consulted in the 

 Students' Room is 4,360. 



Photography. — Eighty-nine applications have been made 

 to photograph from Books and MSS. 



Additions. — The number of works added to the Depart- 

 ment during the year is 1,678, of which 1,608 are Printed 

 Books and 70 are MSS. Of the Printed Books, 84 were 

 bought ; 1,349 were received under the India Copyright Act ; 

 54 were received under the Colonial Copyright Act ; and 121 

 were presented, 



